a human being.

feelings, funnies, opinions, etc

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

[catchymemes]

[castielific]

Me getting ready for a barbcue near the lake:

[quasi-normalcy]

What I can tell you as a transgender woman is that occasionally I will read trans woman characters written by cisgender authors. And I can pretty much always tell when the author is cis, even if the character is portrayed respectfully, because they get some details wrong or something. But I certainly don’t think that they shouldn’t be allowed to take a stab at it, and I actually appreciate any representation that isn’t egregiously harmful. And I certainly don’t think that only transgender women should be allowed to write transgender women because then it falls on me, and that’s rather tokenizing, isn’t it?

[quasi-normalcy]

Also it seems like demanding that only #OwnVoices authors should be allowed to write certain characters is an excellent way to enforce a situation where most books are about cishet white people.

[quasi-normalcy]

And no: you probably won’t get all of the specific details of someone else’s lived experience correct, in much the same way that most authors don’t get all of the specific details about how, say, nuclear reactors or space work. But so long as your character passes as realistically human and not a one-dimensional caricature of what you think that other types of people are like, then I think that that’s reasonable.

[irisbleufic]

Also, sensitivity readers are a thing, and enhance all of the above actions! Paying a reader from the demographic you have written to go over your writing and give constructive feedback is a wonderful thing to do. It benefits both parties involved not only in the financial and craft-honing senses, but also in the exchange of ideas and learning about someone whose perspective and lived experience are different from yours.

[chrishallbeck]

[rosmaryne]

look I know this is sappy and cheesy but u know when a character loses control of their power or they’re possessed or w/e and their s/o shouts their name running towards them and then they stop their rampage and let their s/o hug them,, like that’s good shit

[rosmaryne]

you. you get it.

[tsaristwolf]

[koobaxion-deactivated20220403]

damn then why was the monster so sad all the time

[catherine-siena-dr-of-the-church]

I don’t know which is funnier, the images or that comment

[dankmemeuniversity]

[mirab3lle]

All of that was... this year?

[ace-lost-in-motherfucking-space]

that was all, the firsT FUCKING MONTH

[stephsu]

We shared our first breath. Now it’s time to celebrate that breath… together.

HAPPY 32nd BIRTHDAY SENSATES!  (August 8th, 2020)

[mckitterick]

this feels relevant

[mckitterick]

art from Outbreak, by Bryn Barnard

[mckitterick]

found this new term over at Urban Dictionary

[brucemanimean-batwayne]

how did we all just casually listen to Take Me To Church on the radio in 2014??

you’re telling me we really heard lyrics like “there is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin” and “if i’m a pagan of the good times, my lover’s the sunlight” and didn’t go absolutely buck wild???

[floristyunho]

bold of you to assume i can comprehend the words that are said even to this day

[applefae]

as soon as hozier says "she's the giggle at a funeral" my vision greys out and i wake up 4 hours later in a church garden, shovelling handfuls of dirt into my mouth

[kiwimidnight]

[ottermatopoeia]

This was………………. the drag of the century

[ottermatopoeia]

Same energy

[maximum-alien]

Okay so in case y'all don’t know, this is from Pose. A series about the black trans community and ball culture in new York during the 80’s. Its got vogueing, lgbt+ culture, history, drama, romance, comedy, tragedy. Its wonderful and historically accurate and all the trans people are played by real trans actors.

[soulmate-game]

This is so good I had to reblog it on both of my blogs.

[softestvirgil]

Just because you have a period that doesn’t make a woman and just because you lack one doesn’t make you a man. You are who you are. Nothing less. It’s okay. If anything that’s been said recently has affected you, I’m so sorry.

[orderly-opaline-deactivated2020]

She who must not be named seems to forget that plenty of cis-gendered women do not menstruate regularly.

[softestvirgil]

Not only that, but after a certain age they stop mensturating all together. Does that make them no longer women?

[spidaerman]

[actuallyspeed]

kenneth uses they/them!

[vegannerdgirl]

[themadd]

Stealing a plotline from a show for your daydreams like

[starlightandtears]

Hold the fuck on. Two Senate Republicans who had inside information about how bad the COVID-19 pandemic was going to be months ago dumped stocks after they heard. Hoooold the fuck up. Burr knew how many of us would be at risk and the potential casualty rate and didn’t warn the public. Ooooh bitch. Oooooh bitch. INSIDER TRADING?!

[marvelsmostwanted]

[cognvcblvck]

This shouldn’t be as funny as it is lmao